1. Discover and Learn Together:
a review of the EDS implementation process & how to work with EDS
Abby Smith, Potsdam
Kristy Lee, New Paltz

2. Timeline of New Paltz Discovery

3. Implementation Completed Catalog Questionnaire from EBSCO
Implementation team: systems, electronic resources & serials librarians
Inputs from reference/instruction librarians
Created the ‘EDS Search Testing’ spreadsheet
Librarians compiled a priority list

4. Potsdam Discovery Timeline

5. Test Profile setup instruction:
Make a test profile so you can test changes before making them live to your users

6. How to get the Test Profile url
NP example:
Live
Test

7. Test url within campus IP range
(This only works when you are on campus)
NP example:
Live
Test

8. a search comparison Live Test
other uses of copy profiles - subject/discipline specific search; subject-specific search boxes
Live
Test

9. Now what? Do you want EDS to: Replace your catalog on your website?
Sit next to your catalog?
Be your main tool for searching?
Be one of many tools?

11. Customization - Placards and Widgets
The problem with widgets
Placard

12. Placard Options
The result
The code

13. Customization: Custom catalogs
Still a work in progress, but custom catalogs can be used to include:
Films on Demand/other media
Ebook collections
Institutional repositories?
Kristy’s note - if you choose not to have custom catalogs in EDS, you can add those records into your own Aleph catalog (batch upload or contact OLIS for assistance). In New Paltz, we chose to continue importing ebrary ebooks records every month (using the MARC loader instructions given by Maggie Horn of OLIS). Update - I talked to Maggie at SUNYLA last week, she recommends that we upload the ebooks and FOD onto EDS as custom catalogs.

14. Impact of EDS
Usage statistics - too soon to tell for sure, but it’s a mix
Faculty say they like it
Students say they like it
Librarians - not really fans

15. Managing Expectations
What EDS does
What EDS doesn’t do
Why that’s ok

16. Questions?

17. Thanks!